Anti-Social Screen Obsession is Actually Due to Hyper-Social Need to Connect with Others Says New Study While it’s no secret that we, as modern people, have an unhealthy fixation with our various electronic screens, a new study suggests that our obsession with...
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make...
3 Years Sober and Loving Life What brought you to ATC? Substance abuse, anxiety, depression & emotional dysregulation. I didn’t have a vision of what life as an independent adult was like. I had no direction for life after high school. Had you been to any programs...
At ATC we hold a weekly co-ed recovery support group that meets on Tuesday afternoons at our clubhouse. Not all members of the group have a primary substance use disorder or are necessarily substance dependent. The qualification to be in the group is simply a desire...
Almost everyone will display some sort of overly aggressive, unproductive acts of unwarranted anger at one time or another. For many young adults who experience frequent outbursts, or exhibit threatening behaviors, individual therapy or anger management programs are...
When psychologists at Kansas State University began delving into health data gathered on 13,000 adults and children, they discovered a gene that may be the reason some children become rule breakers as they are growing up. This gene, DAT1, appears to lead to mild rule...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is the fastest growing group of developmental disabilities. Given the growing prevalence of ASD, there is increasing focus, understandably, on the screening, diagnosis, and interventions for young children. However, there is less...
Keyword: Codependency Codependency is a cycle, and there is a way to thrust a branch of reason in between its spokes. Pun-intended, but this is a really effective illustration of the problem’s fix, and that will be explored below. The (bi)cycle of dependency has...
As social media trends grow in popularity, the effect they have on the way young adults handle dating and relationships becomes even more obvious. From internet dating, to social media accounts, to the intricacies of emojis in texting, young adult trends have a heavy...
The majority of clients arrive at ATC having first completed a wilderness therapy program. More often than not these students arrive glowing with a renewed sense of pride, confidence, eagerness and hope in continuing the growth experienced in the powerful container...
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